ECON BC3033 INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS

Professor: Sharon Harrison, Fall 2004

1. Course Description:
This course is designed to extend the material you learned in Economics BC1001. We start by developing an understanding of how economists measure important macroeconomic variables; and then we build models of the goods and money markets. We use these models to study the short run: economic fluctuations and the effects of fiscal and monetary policies in this framework. Then, we add in the labor market and study the longer run. We will also examine the problems of inflation, unemployment, and growth. Though we will learn a significant amount of important economic theory, I will try to focus on applications of these theories to the real world. In general, the goal is to arm you with a more thorough understanding of how
our economy works, and to prepare you for further study in the undeniably exciting field of economics.

Here is my Spring 2000 syllabus for the course (when I taught it last).

2. Requirements:
The requirements are weekly problem sets, a midterm exam and a final exam.
I am toying with the idea of some kind of writing assignment, but I'm not sure yet.

3. Prerequisites:
An introductory course in economics and a functioning knowledge of high school algebra and analytical geometry, or permission of the instructor.